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2026-04-19 14:11 UTC
@fozztexx@mastodon.fozztexx.com sure, I guess I was mostly curious why the pico wasn't surface-mounted onto the cartridge board itself.
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@fozztexx@mastodon.fozztexx.com 2026-04-19 14:18
@huronbikes@cyberplace.social It's a prototype, not even close to complete. The board is designed to be easy to hack up and reconnect things as needed. It's also designed to be re-usable for bringups for more than just MSX. It's going to be used for CoCo, ISA, NES, BBC Micro, and more. Plus being a prototype it's quite possible that the RP2350 or ESP32 might get fried so it's good to that someone can simply replacing them without needing to do any soldering. Many people contributing can't do surface mount rework.